May 13, 2014

Meeting of Experts on Lethal autonomous weapons systems of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

For the Holy See the fundamental question is the following: Can machines – well-programmed with highly sophisticated algorithms to make decisions on the battlefield in compliance with IHL – truly replace humans in decisions over life and death?
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